A Review: Natural Fiber as Reinforcement in Waste Paper Recycling and its Processing Methods

Abstract:

As demand for clean and healthy environment, people make many alternate solutions to save the environment. To save trees and overcome landfill of waste material and waste disposal by burning activities issues (cause to losing energy and increase pollution), people nowadays take recycling as a recovery. Recycling waste paper into new product increased over the years. Shortage of wood supply required new sources of natural fiber for papermaking industry. Many researchers have studied new sources of natural fibers from non wood materials, such as oil palm residues, kenaf (Hibiscus Cannabinus), pineapple leaf, banana, and coconut fiber. Kenaf is choose as reinforcement agent for recycled waste paper to maximize the use of kenaf in industry application due its wide range of advantages where pineapple leaf are choose as reinforcement agent because abundantly of these material in Malaysia. Reinforcement of natural fiber into waste paper during recycling process expected to increased strength properties of final product. To understand the right and suitable processing method for kenaf fiber and pineapple leaf leaves previous work from other researchers are studied to investigate pulping procedure of natural fiber and its effect on mechanical strength.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 315)
• Pages: 443-447
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.315.443
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: S.K.A. Saferi, Y. Yusof
• Keywords: Kenaf, Natural Fiber, Pineapple Leaf, Recycle, Waste Paper

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